At the time, I was looking for a name for my little mail-order company. It was a poetic phrase that could describe many different sounds. which swept over you, immersed you, surrounded you. This was something underground, submerged, obscure.
I found those two words ('dark' and 'wave') quite interesting.
It appeared in German magazines – such as Zillo – describing a style of European music that followed other 'waves' such as New Wave.
I first became aware of the term 'Dark Wave' back in 1992. Warhol and Scarlet's Remains)Īfter 1993, in the United States the term dark wave (as the one-word variant 'darkwave') became associated with the Projekt Records label, because it was adopted by label founder Sam Rosenthal after leafing through the pages of German music magazines such as Zillo, and has been used to promote and market artists from German label Hyperium Records in the U.S. Faith & The Muse (Monica Richards and Marzia Rangel of Christ vs.
